Umbilical-cord tie



J. A. TRAVIS. UMBILICAL CORD TIE. APPLICATION map MAY 2a. 1918.

Patented Oct. 26, 1920.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 26, 1920.

Application filed May 28, 1918. Serial Ho. 237,057.

To all whom it may com-era Be it known that I, JEANIE A. TRAVIS, acitizen of the United States, residing State of New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Umbilical- Cord Ties; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled'in the art to whichit appertains to mak and use the same.

This inven ion relates to surgical devices, and more particularly toumbilical ties.

It is one of the objects of the present invention to provide forefi'ectively maintaining surgical devices of the above type in athoroughly sterile condition after they have been once assembled andpacked, and it is another object of the invention to provide for theconvenient handling of a package or plurality of the devices withoutdanger of exposing or soiling the remaining ties, and it is also anobject of the invention to provide a package containing one or more tiesso as toxbe able to market the same in suitable numbers. Y

A further object of the invention is to provide a tie of this characterwhich first is hermetically sealed in an individual, fragile,

pliant wrapper, and which in turn is again sealed in a cellular,fragile, pliant wrapper or jacket, the latter providing for theeffective separation of one of its sections from the other withoutresulting in the unsealing of adjacent of its sections in which theremay be hermetically inclosed another or other-enveloped ties.

With-the above and other objects in view as will be readily manifest tothose skilled in the art, the invention consists in the construction andin the combination, and in details and arr'an ements of the arts as*more particularly escribed hereina er. relative to the embodiment ofthe invention, illustrated in the accompanying drawing,

.wherein' p I Figure 1 is a plan view of a blank of which an envelop mabe formed;

Fig. gfl is a partly olded blank; Fig. '3 is a plan view ofthe nearlycompletedenvelop inclosing a tie;

, -i ties viewof the reverse side of the five op 'completcly folded Fig.5'is a side-elevation of one-of the-ties 58; broken away;

Fig. 6 1s a plan view of a jacket blank; and

at New York, inthe county of New York and Fig. 7 is a perspective viewof the folded part1 broken away jacket showing it closed andormingseveral hermetically sealed and separate sections, each containingan envelop inclosing a. tie. 7

While it is possible that the present package ma be formed of materialof various properties and characteristics forming envelops and jackets,and while .it is obvious that the envelops and jackets may assumevarious forms and. be folded in various methods and manners in theembodiment of the invention illustrated, there is shown in -Fig. 1 ablank 2 preferably of tissue paper.

and suitable size which may be folded, along the lines a to assume theform shown in Fig. 2, so as to envelop the umbilical tie shown at3 inFig. 5,which may be arranged in a compact mass as for instance byforming it into a spiral or volute as indicated by the dotted lines inFigs. 3 and 4 in which the compacted tie 3 isdisposed between the frontand back components of the envelop 4; formed of the blank 2. For apurpose to be hereinafter described, preferably the envelop, the foldedleaves of which are hermetically sealed or pasted together as at 5, isoverturned at its corners as illustrated at 6, these corners beingpasted down as indicated by the stippling 7 and thus formingahermetically closed envelop of the form illustrated in Fig. 4 withpoints at its narrower sides. Any suitable number of these envelops withtheir inclosed ties are capable of being severally protected andconveniently carried in an exterior jacket, which in the presentinstancemay be formed of a blank as shown in Fig. 6,' at 10, foldable along thelines 6 to assume the shape of a tube as illustrated in Fig. 7, theoverlap-, ping edges of the folded sides being pasted together asindicated at 11. .An addltional seal is madewhich divides the jacket 10into sections 15, 16, 17, and 18, by transversly pasting the front andback panels together, as indicated alon' the zpnes 19, and

also at the ends 20.- The ongitudinal paste line 11 together with thetransverse paste lines 19 and 20 thus form hermetically closed sections15 to 18, in each of which there may be' protected the loaded envelop4,-which preferably is disposed with its longitudinal axis transverse tothe jacket 10', so that the parallel edges of each of the envelops 4 liein proximity to the ad'acent gummed portions 12? and 20 with t e pointsof the ;en-

velop adjacent the longitudinal edges of the jacket 10. This latter isweakened along 1ts zones 19 to facilitate severing one of the sectionsfrom the other, this weakening in the present instance being obtained byperforating the jacket along the transverse lines 21. at a lineintermediate the edges of the -zones of paste at 19, so that when one ofthe sections is severed along the perforated or weakened line 21, theseal of another of the sections is not broken, thereby keeping theinclosed envelop and its tie from danger of contamination.

By arranging the envelops 4 with their envelops and sterilized is keptfree from exposure to germs by the outer jacket from which one sectionis easily separated from the. other by tearing along thev weakened line,leaving the remaining ties of the package in hermetically sealedcondition. While the number of sections in the jacket may vary, and infact While the article may be manufactured in a strip of any desiredlength and therefore enable the removal of any number of connectedsections as may be desired, for convenience the jacket may consistordinarily of four sections, two of which are usually required ingeneral practice, and sometimes a third may be used for re-tying or incase of multiple birth there is need of all four of. the ties.

What is claimed is:

A sterile packet for umbilical cord ties comprising in combination anouter plural separable section jacket, each separable section comprisingan hermetically sealed chamber and a plurality of hermetically sealedenvelops, each containing an umbilical cord tie member and one of saidenvelops being in closed in each of said separable sealed chambersections. a

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

J EANIE A. TRAVIS.

